Poetry pre-20th Century
[London: Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, Ltd., 1914]. Limited edition. Slim octavo. Publisher's linen-backed paper boards, lettered in gilt. T.e.g. First edition, thus. Edition limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade Riccardi paper; the copies were numbered yet this copy is unnumbered (writer's fatigue?). Initial page of the sonnets.....
London: Constable & Co., Ltd, [1948]. First edition. Octavo. Teal cloth, silver spine. Collogravure frontispiece portrait. Title page in red and black. 269,[1] pp. Very good; in a good unclipped typographic and decorated dust jacket with some chips and closed tears, mostly confined to the top edge.First edition, first impression.....
Tempe: Edwin B. Hill, 1948. Single sheet folded once, 7x5" First edition. 4 pp. Printed on a small hand press, not in BAL, about fine. First edition. Wilde's prose poem here presents four individuals whose lives were profoundly changed by Christ’s miracles. These include a leper who was healed, a......
London: Jonathan Cape, [1936]. First edition. Slim octavo. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine. Frontis portrait from a drawing by Francis Dodd. First edition. Preface by his brother, Laurence Housman, who was under orders by A. E. to destroy his notebooks after his death -- which L. H. did, but not.....
Mount Vernon, The Peter Pauper Press, N.d. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. Eight page publication Supplement entitled "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy A Parody," laid in. Lightly rubbed at tips, else a good, bright copy, without a dust jacket.
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Isles of Shoals, Off Portsmouth, NH: 19 August 1893. First edition. Two pages, (21.5 x 14.5cm), in ink on Appledore House, - Laighton Brothers, letterhead. About fine. Hutton (1843 – 1904) was an American poet, essayist and critic born in New York City on August 8, 1843, and educated privately there.....
New York: Random House, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth. First edition of this selection; edited, with an introduction by Robert Penn Warren. Edges slightly dusty, but a very good copy in a lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1925. Teal blue wrappers, paper label. First edition. Light use at edges, else about fine, and absolutely hilarious.
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1950. First edition. Small octavo. Cloth boards, gilt spine. 86 pp. A slender book of essays and poetry, recipes, ghost stories, and songs, compiled by the poet Edith Sitwell mainly about the pleasures to be found in Winter. Cats are mentioned, as are spirits -.....
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899. Limited edition. Cream-colored card wraps with lapped edges, printed in brown on upper panel and spine. 88pp. Old World Series. First edition, thus; edition limited to 925 on Van Gelder paper. Title page in red and black; ribbon bookmark laid in. About fine, enfolded.....
Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by J. Marshall, in the Old Flesh-Market, Where may also be had, a large and curious Assortment of Songs, Ballads, Tales, Histories, &c. [nd. but c. 1805]. First edition. Chapbook. Self wrapper, untrimmed. Pictorial woodcut vignette on title of a woman and a man in swirling.....
Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by J. Marshall, in the Old Flesh-Market, Where may also be had, a large and curious Assortment of Songs, Ballads, Tales, Histories, &c. [nd. but c. 1805]. First edition. Chapbook. Self wrapper, untrimmed. Pictorial woodcut vignette on title of, presumably, the Gentlemen of the Quizzical Society.....
[Trinity College, Cambridge]: Oasis, November, 1951. Tan printed wrappers, stapled. 16 pp. Minimally bothered at edges, a very good copy overall. First edition. A popular college periodical that was created to encourage poetic activity in Cambridge and elsewhere by hosting a poetry competition and encouraging unsolicited manuscripts. The sketch of.....
New York: Friedmans', 1920. Paper boards, paper label to spine and upper board. Frontispiece portrait. A few finger smudges to boards, labels a trifle worn, very good or slightly better. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, this being No. 52. The pioneering attempt, by the innovative publisher/bookseller.
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1904. First, limited edition. Octavo. Sewn brown wrappers printed in black. [6],7-30,[2] pp. Title page printed in red, black, and green. Wrappers split and fragile, former owner's name on top edge of half-title, else a good or better copy. First separate publication in England of Wilde's.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931. Large quarto. Original blue printed wrappers, signatures sewn. Vol. XX Summer 1931 No. 4. [LXIV,649-864,LXV-LXXII pp.] Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, short rub at spine edge, faint ex-library stamp on upper wrapper, unused library card to recto of lower wrap; bookplate of the noted.....